Preschool - 2nd Grade Common Core Activities

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

This game is the perfect way to prepare your child for any shopping adventures you may embark upon, all while practicing important math concepts.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.